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Dan, you post interesting stuff, but yes, I wish you would post less.
Oh, for heavens sake. Self-obsess much? I said I quit posting because it was disheartening to have 50 random dreck posts up at the same time – I didn’t say they were YOUR dreck posts. Go look at the site archives for the two or three days when I contributed anything and tell me that’s the Golden Age of blogging.
Come on, if we can’t bandy each other a little bit, then we should just quit coming out in public.
Where is the love?
Dan, I’m a fan!
– Not to cut into the twoel ass snapping, and general ass grabbing rowdyness, I was reading an online account of the shuttle launch that took place this evening, and something amusing near the end of the article caught my eye. even as a scientist, I found it rather endearing, in a rediculous sort of way.
– It seems that after decades of scientific endeavor, countless numbers of top engineering talent, the best hardware available from American industry, and untold billions of investment (yes I’m too lazy to google it right now), there is a very basic flaw in the nature of the onboard computers and software, described thusly:
“NASA officials were glad to get the shuttle off their ground since they wanted it back on Earth by the new year.
Shuttle computers are not designed to make the change from the 365th day of the old year to the first day of the new year while in flight. The space agency has figured out a solution for the New Year’s Day problem, but managers are reluctant to try it.”
– In other words, the shuttle onboard hardware has a sort of “Y2K” problem, except in this case it can’t operate past the end of a single year. Too funny. Can you imagine the flight crew flying along blissfully, when suddenly the computer moniters all lit up with “Happy New Year….. you just ran out of luck dudes and dudesses…have a nice day”, and then shut down. Yikes!, or would that be “Y2Ks”.
The shuttle is flying with 1980’s technology. (Today an average single PC has more computing power than all of the computers on a lunar mission combined…and that’s with NASA’a triple redundancy) Would you like to still be using an 80’s computer? or cellphone? or game console? or TV?
The Air Force must have an operational space plane at Groom Lake. And if they don’t, they should, and heads should roll.
Robert,
I meant that ironically, which really was how I took your comment. Unfortunately, I can’t post emoticons from work (behind the firewall, I guess), so it’s hard to do the connotative stuff.
Frump,
I would try and post less, but my home computer’s not functioning, and I have to post in big vomitous gobs. You’re certainly welcome not to read anything I do, particularly as I’m not able to really digest before I vom, given the time constraints. And so, I don’t take it personally at all, because I’m not giving you all Goldstein or Ace. I’m giving you pre-texts or “conversation pieces” from stuff that I stumble across as I surf. Not everything I root up is going to seem like a truffle to everybody.
My principle job (I have several, but the one I put in 40 hours per week at) is at a big gift company with a number of divisions. This is a very, very busy time for us, so even were my computer functioning well, I’d not have much time to do anything in which I made much of an investment and of which I might feel particularly proud.
Please rip away, if you like.
Please rip away, if you like.
You SUCK!
I would try and be more ironical and witty but I just woke up. Apparently you aren’t supposed to drink gin in pint glasses. You know, they could have told me that before I started painting the sidewalk.